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Rooms17.5

Public Spaces17

Service18

Overall17.5

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Hotel Description

6 Columbus, the Upper West Side sister to downtown’s successful SIXTY SoHo, is the rare sequel that might just eclipse the original, helped in no small part by its location — it’s a prestigious one, right on Columbus Circle, next to the Time Warner Center retail-and-dining development and at the southwest corner of Central Park.

Designer Steven Sclaroff’s inspiration was Sixties modernism, but beyond some touches of fur and leather in the lobby, any Austin Powers–esque kitsch is studiously avoided. The 6 Columbus Hotel is stylish, in a somewhat serious vein, never stuffy, but always impeccably composed. The rooms aren’t huge — this is still New York, after all — but they’re well-equipped with all the luxe-boutique must-haves (flat-screen TV, iPod docking stereo) and some thoughtful extras as well (Dean & DeLuca snacks in the minibar, high-end Ren toiletries in the bathrooms).

Service is quite a bit friendlier than you might expect from such a fine-looking hotel, and while the amenities aren’t quite on the luxury-hotel level, neither are the rates. Anyway the absolute necessities are accounted for: the Blue Ribbon is both a sushi restaurant and a swanky wood-paneled cocktail bar, and Above 6, the rooftop bar and lounge, comes complete with views of the park.